Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
–Judge Learned Hand
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
October 4, 2023 The Failed Drug War Does Not Equate to "Open Borders"
Yesterday, I pointed out that the thousands of immigrants who are illegally entering the United States along the U.S.-Mexico border does not signify that U.S. officials have suddenly and unexpectedly adopted the libertarian position of open borders. Instead, the flood of illegal immigrants shows that America’s decades-old system of immigration controls, whose aim is to prevent illegal entry into the United States, continues to be one gigantic miserable failure.
You're Not Fired
by Laurence M. Vance
At the end of every episode of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump’s reality TV show, he would utter his signature catchphrase “You’re Fired!” Yet, it ...
Macaulay and the Ghosts of Tyranny Past, Part 2 by James Bovard
Reposing with a favorite author in the Virginia Tech library in 1976, I savored one zinger after another in Thomas Macaulay’s ...
Congressional and Media Hypocrisy on Cluster Bombs by Ted Galen Carpenter
The U.S. elite’s alleged commitment to human rights and opposition to war crimes was just put to the test in an especially clear fashion. ...
There Is No America First Case for Supporting Ukraine by Laurence M. Vance
After the United States foolishly and unnecessarily intervened in World War One — against the warnings of the Founding Fathers about getting involved in ...
